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        Excellence is THE trend of the '80s.  Walk into any shopping
mall bookstore, go to the rack where they keep the best-sellers such as
"Garfield Gets Spayed", and you'll see a half-dozen books telling you
how to be excellent: "In Search of Excellence", "Finding Excellence",
"Grasping Hold of Excellence", "Where to Hide Your Excellence at Night
So the Cleaning Personnel Don't Steal It", etc.
                -- Dave Barry, "In Search of Excellence"

Excess on occasion is exhilarating.  It prevents moderation from
acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
                -- W. Somerset Maugham

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you,
and just before you realize what is wrong with it.

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens
to you.
                -- Aldous Huxley

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake
when you make it again.
                -- Franklin P. Jones

Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye,
particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
                -- Clifton Fadiman, "Enter Conversing"

Fame may be fleeting but obscurity is forever.